Anne of Green Gables

[Joanne]

I agree this week is going to be hard (obviously that was the intent). I found a half dozen books that have Q or U but sports books are harder. I am going to narrow down which 3 or so I will read. The only for sure book I'm going to get to is because it starts with a U and is tagged sports (about a ballet dancer)

[SandyL]

Don't worry @Devann and @Joanne - every week everyone comes through and we do get enough tough letters and genre books, so I know it will all be fine!

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Anyone have any fun plans?

[Suzanne]

I'm leaving this afternoon for a wedding (my nephew) - so that'll be the weekend for me. Spending time with family will be nice, plus my dad will get to play with his puppy that I am raising. Hopefully he will behave (the puppy, not my dad).
I hope everyone has a great weekend :)

[Megan]

Hopefully your dad behaves too Suzanne xD That sounds like a lovely weekend!

Lots of housework this weekend and then afternoon tea with my girlfriends on Sunday which I am very much looking forward to.

[Joanne]

I've got two dinners this long weekend. One we're hosting and then a birthday dinner we're going to. So lots of shopping and housecleaning.

[SandyL]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELINDA!!!

[SandyL]

@Suzanne - how big is the puppy now? I hope you have a nice weekend with your family!

@Megan - I'm sure it's nice to have an event-free weekend, right? Enjoy your time with your friend!

@Joanne - I hope you have fun and aren't too exhausted with all the shopping, cleaning and partying!!!

[Melindam]

You are soooo kind, Sandy! *BLUSH*

Thank You. :))))))))

[Cat]

Am I late?
Happy birthday fellow Pratchett lover!!

[Melindam]

Thank you, Cat. :)

[Suzanne]

Happy birthday!!

I'm back from my trip. I have TWO puppies now - just for a day I think. My brother's puppy is here - they are at Yellowstone which is not dog-friendly. Fang gained 5 pounds this week! He is now 26.4 pounds. He got lots of compliments over the weekend - he's really a well behaved huge puppy (knock on wood)

[Suzanne]

I'll get books checked in tonight or early tomorrow. Would you rather have me focus on sports or "U"? for future books this week?

[SandyL]

Wow Suzanne - two puppies is a lot of work. How old is Fang now? Sounds like you're doing a great job with him!

I think U books would be the priority since we need them to spell our word. I can get a good number of sports books in this week and I think Melinda has a couple. I've got two I need to post - I'll do that in the morning - and I'm reading another and have a 4th on deck plus a long list of others I want to read. I'm trying to read longer books, but if it gets closer to the deadline I've got a number of shorter ones I can bang out quickly.

[Suzanne]

U books sound great - I have a lots.

Fang is 10.5 weeks now - still so young! The other dog is his sister so I'm hoping they will just wear themselves out :)

[Melindam]

Hello Everyone! Back from Spain ... sadly... :(
But I am going to finish POLO today & check it in.

[Suzanne]

Welcome back!

[Melindam]

Thank you Suzanne & for you kind wishes as well. :)

[SandyL]

Welcome back Melinda! What did you do for your birthday? I hope you had a fun day!!

[Melindam]

Thank you, Sandy. It was a lovely day, I did nothing much, it was mostly relaxing and chilling out - just what I needed.

[Dev]

hope you don't mind but i was the word fairy who assigned letters to most of our finished books [i didn't want to use the good fight for the S to finish our first word since it works for U and i feel like we'll need it later lol]

[SandyL]

Thanks Devann!

How's everybody doing? I can't believe this is our last week - this challenge has gone by very fast!

[Suzanne]

I can't believe its the last week either! How in the world did that happen so fast!?

[Dev]

i've had fun reading with you guys but i'm definitely ready to move onto lava where i can reader shorter books and not focus entirely on spelling lol ;)

[Melindam]

UPDATE: Hello there, Green Ladies!

Nice work!! We have spelled out our word twice already and read 8 books for the genre.

For a 3rd spell-out we need 4 books with the easier letters of E, R, C, S

[Dev]

so weird not to have a new word on wednesday lol

[Melindam]

Yes, definitely strange! :)

[Suzanne]

I finished Up the Down Staircase for another U book - I'll do a completion post in a bit.

I'd forgotten this morning that I have to do a review this week for a short book - darn it. It starts with "R" though, so at least it has a letter in our word.

[Melindam]

Already filling in the 4th spell-out. Nice Work, Ladies.

[Dev]

i've got two more books to finish and then i think i will be done. one of them only works for E so far so save me a spot! okay i found an R character too so we've got options lol

[Melindam]

I am going to finish Riders by tomorrow that's another Genre book and then I'm also done.
Although I am really in need ofmore relaxed & random reading, finishing a team challenge always feels kind of weird & a bit sad.

[SandyL]

I know Melinda - it's a mixed blessing. I'm behind on my SRC challenge books so, although I'll miss reading with you all, having more flexibility in what I read will be nice! I just finished a book and am in the middle of an audio book - I'll have time for one or two more depending on the length.

[Megan]

I will finish Unseen Academicals by the deadline and I feel the same! I have quite a few Netgalley books to catch up on that didn't really fit with the genres/letters we had so it will be good to have a bit more freedom but I've really enjoyed playing with you ladies and it's gone so quickly!

[Dev]

yeah i have a middle grade book from NG that published on tuesday but wasn't on arbookfind so i put it off even though i feel bad about getting it done late

[Joanne]

Whenever a good team challenge is ending I always think how it'll be nice to have time to read whatever I want but then once it ends I feel lost and like I'm missing something for a bit. It usually isn't long before I'm looking for the next team challenge.

[Joanne]

I'm hoping to finish my last two books tonight.

[Suzanne]

I finished Undercurrents and will finish All the Stars in the Sky by tomorrow. I think that'll be it for me.

Its sure been fun being on a team with all of you. Thanks so much!!

[Dev]

i just checked in my last book so i'm done! i think we did okay considering we had one of the smallest teams, and at least we aren't in dead last ;) lol

[Melindam]

Dear Ladies,

This has been a fun challenge with You All.
I think we have done our best considering the smallness of our Team!

@Sandy - A BIG THANK YOU FOR CAPTAINING OUR TEAM! ;)

@Joanne- yes, LOST is the word I was looking for - this is precisely how I feel after a Team Challenge ends, but now I know that 2 of those challenges/year is my limit. Last year I did more and I got close to a reading burnout, I want to avoid that.

[SandyL]

Hey Greenies!!

It's been awesome reading with you all - and I really, really want to thank you all for sticking with it. You don't know how many times, and how frustrating it is, when someone just disappears!! (Hint - if you are ever doing a team challenge you can't finish please just say something to the captain or mods to let them know!)

@Melinda - back at you! You did most of the work, so THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! With the time differences you guys were up and at it long before I even woke up and I appreciate you keeping things on track first thing in the day, Melinda.

I'm working on one more book and I'll get everything logged and posted and get us checked in today by the deadline. I'll let you all know when that's done. I think we'll have a nice week on our points with all the reading you've all done for our final push!

[Suzanne]

I really enjoyed our team - and I agree - it was so nice everyone stuck around and played :) Thanks captains for making things run so smoothly!

I'm going to go write the review and check in my last book now. I hope all of you have a wonderful remainder of the summer!

[Melindam]

Yes, DO HAVE A WONDERFUL AUGUST!!

And hope to meet you all at another team challenge. :)

[Megan]

Last book finished :)

It's been lovely playing with you all and I'm sure I will see you all again in other challenges! (Won't be too long until Towers Teams).

Captains you have been fabulous <3

Have a lovely summer everyone!

[SandyL]

Thanks again ladies!!! Now I just need a way to stop looking for letters when I'm reading my books! 😍 Happy rest of the summer to everyone and thanks for being a great team!!